[Duracell]

A while ago I picked up a handy tip from these forums that detailed how to drag a widget onto the desktop so you have it there all the time (Hold down F13 when you're dragging a widget from the bar to the screen (or whatever key you have binded to show the dashboard)).

First of all, thanks for whoever posted it, really useful!

I was wondering if it was possible to actually *keep* it there even if you bring up the dashboard again! At the moment, if I have any widgets floated on the desktop, they vanish after I open the dashboard and then close it again, pretty annoying!

Anyone know a terminal command to make them stay there untill I close them manually? Or even a OS X hack perhaps.

Example;

Mr Widget is there..

I open the dashboard again..

Bye-bye Mr Widget

[Stradlater]

Amnesty

http://www.mesadynamics.com/amnesty.htm

You can't do what you're asking with the built-in Dashboard.

[Duracell]

That's the badger, just what I was looking for!

I really think Apple have missed out on a major thing for not being able to do this - It just seems silly the way it's done at the moment, I can see why people find it useful though.

Cheers for finding that for me, a great help

[Art Vandelay]

Actually, you can do that with Dashboard. There's a defaults setting you can run at the Terminal to enable it. Let me see if I can find it. I have a widget on my desktop at all times.

[Art Vandelay]

Found it.

Code:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES

[Stradlater]

Originally Posted by Art Vandelay

Found it.

Code:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES

He has that enabled. However, when you activate the dashboard layer, all desktop-level widgets get sucked into dashboard.

[Fonzie]

^They shouldn't - worked like a charm here when trying it.

[Duracell]

I didn't have that enabled, now that I do, It works!

Thanks Fonzie and Stradlater!

[Fonzie]

No problem Duracell, although I didn't actually help. but thanks